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Sept. 4, 1934. A. J. LESS TIE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed July 28 1933 Patented Sept. 4, 1934 FFIC I 1,972,594 7 rm Ann METHOD oF MAKING THE SAME "Albert J. Less, CIintom IoWa, assignor to Joseph 1 V W. Less, Clinton, Iowa Application an 23, 1933, seen-m. 682,593

9 Claims. (01. 2 -150) This invention pertains to scarfs or ties of the made up type, and to a mode of constructing the same.

An object lies in providing a structure in a 5 made up tie wherein the body of the same will always properly align itself with the knot portion to the end that it willhang in a properly suspended position with respect thereto.

Another object is to provide a made up tie it) wherein the body portion will swing freely from the knot portion and be thus self adjusting and so that it may be readily modeled below said knot portion to suit the designer or wearer.

Further, an object is to so relate the portions 315 of a tie with respect to each other during con-- struction that a minimum of operations only are necessary for the production of the tie and thereby the number of finished ties that can be associated lining entering into the constructionof the knot of the tie.

Figure 4 is a rear elevation of a .tie made according to my invention, the same appearing in perspective.

Figure 5 illustrates in perspective a tubular knot portion shown in dotted lines in Figure '2, and appearing in flat form for sewing, and" Figure 6 is a front elevation of the finished tie.

It may be stated that my tie is of that type 40 illustrated in the pending application of Joseph W. Less, Ser. No. 672,201 filed in the United States- Patent Office of the22ndday of May, 1933 wherein the tie is held in adjusted position at the wearers collar by a bunching of the collar-encircling band within atubular knot portion, the

present invention being an improvement applicable to that type as well as to ties of other forms such as use an impalement pin for securing the tie in adjustment.

The manner of constructing and finishing the tie herein begins with the assembling of a tie body 1 and the collar encircling band. The said body, or body portion as I shall term it, is usually of a tubular made up form having a narrow neck portion'l' at its upper end. At-

tachedto the said neck portion, as part of my invention, is a stripof tape 3 doubled upon itself, its ends being secured as by sewing, for example, either within or'outside of saidneck portion forming what may be termed a hanger. 6!} It may be said, however, that this hanger may be of any other type that will answer the .purposes herein to be made known. Upon the back side of the neck portion is now placed one end of .a' neck-encircling band 2, followed by drawing over the thus related'parts a tapering tubular outer knot portion 401 the tie material of which the body portion 1 is constructed, the small end of the knot portion overlying the previously located end of the band 2. The thus assembled parts are now sewed to each other as at b. While'the body portion-and the tape 3 are preferably sewn together prior to the acts last described it is clear that, if desired, the two acts may be combined in the one sewing at b.

The body portion, band andknot having now been secured relatively, a U-shaped wire 5 is inserted through the loop of the hanger-tape 3, the extremities thereof depending as shown. Next, there is provided an inner knot portion 7 preferably oi' stiff material such as canvas, for example, of substantially the form shown in Figure 1, its ends being lapped upon itself and secured to form pockets 6 into which the extremities of the wire5 are inserted. i 35 The lower free extremity of the outer knot portion 4 is now drawn up around the wire 5v and the inner knot portion 7 as shown in dotted lines in Figure 2 whereupon the open upper end thereof may be machine stitched as at c, Figure 5. The thus stitched end-is next folded down upon the rear side oi the portion 7"as shown by dotted lines 01 in said Figure 2.- I r I Thus arranged the tie is nowplaced in a machine, not shown, and the jaws therefor, not shown, serve bypressure to bend the wire and its canvas covering '7, together with the outer knot 1' ,portion 4, into tubular form appearingras in Figure 4, the folded end of said outer knot portion lying Within the formed tube as d in that figure.

The tie is now complete and ready for use, it being observed that in this instance the point at which the band 2 is attached is near the lower portion of the completed knot, this point of at- 1 tachment being for a tie of the particular type herein and that described in the patent application above referred to.

In a study of Figure 6 it will be seen that the tape 3 hangs from the wire 5 thus suspending the body portion 1 freely from such wire. It is to be noted that since the body portion 1 is suspended freely from the wire 5 by means of the tape 3 it is free to both swing and to shift thereon to thus find a natural pendent position beneath the knot portion even though the covering material of the knot is attached at its lower or small end to such body portion, sufficient freedom being providedwby the covering material distant from its place *of attachment at b to permit such movement, and the tie need never present, therefore, a distorted appearance. Due to the fact that the body portion extends some distance up inside the knot the material thereof where it extends from the knot may be readily modeled to present desired folds;or may be other: wise dressed to suit the fancy. Instead of ma'-. chine sewing the large end of the cov ering material 4 at c as in Figure 5*the *end- "of such material may be pushed down into the knot as the combination of a knot portion, a wire secured within the same having a substantially straight portion extending in atransverse direction, a

body portion extending at an end thereof into said knot portion including a part extending from the said body portion and engaged about the wire to swing therefrom, said part being relatively narrow as compared'with the length of the said straight portion of to shift along the same.

2. A tie including a body portion, a neck en-- circling band attached atone of its ends to one end of said body portion, said band paralleling the longest measurement of the'latter, an inner knot portion enclosing the body portion at that end to which the band is attached, and a hanger' portion attached to thebody portion and to the.

knot portion freely suspending the former from the latterand arranged to permit those portions to swing one with respect totheother, the place of attachment of the-neck, encircling band to said body portion being within the knot portion adjacent that end thereof into whichthe said body portion extends. l

3. In a tie, a body portion, a band overlying-at one end a part of one end of the said body portion atthe back side thereofian outer. .knot'portion enclosing the thus assembled ends, all of the described parts being secured" in connected-relation, and an inner knot portion enclosed by the said outer knot portion, said-body portion being suspended freely from said inner knot portion and free to move laterally with respect to it.

the wire and free portions into tubular form. 4. In'a tie, abodyportion,-a band overlying at one end part of one end of said body portion, an outer knot portion enclosing the thus associated ends of the named parts, all of said parts being secured in connected relation, and an inner knot portion enclosed by said outer knot portion, and means for connecting the inner knot portion and the body portion at a position distant from the place where the, band and body portion are secured to eachotherythe last named portion being free to swing laterally with respect to both knot portions.

. 5. In a tie, a body portion, a band attached at one end to said bodyportion near one end thereof "at its back side, an outer tubular knot portion enclosing the two and also'attached at one end to -said;bodylportion at substantially the place of attachment of the said band, an inner knot portion enclosed in the outer knot portion, and means connecting. the body portion to the inner knot portion for suspending one from the other.

' 6. The 'invention'according to claim 5 wherein the point of connection of the band, the outer knot portion, and the body portion lies distant from the freeend of said body portion, and distant from the place of connection of the inner knot portion with the main body of the structure.

"I. In a method of constructing a tie, the method which includes the steps of placing upon one end of the body portion of a tie one end of the collar encircling band of. the tie, placing about the two named parts an outer knot portion, securing together one end of the latter and the said named parts, attaching an inner knot portion to the body portionat a'single point, and drawing the outer knot portion over the inner knot portion.

8. In a method of constructing a tie, the method which includes the steps of attaching to one end of the body portion of a tie a suspending portion, placing upon that end of the body portion one end of a collar encircling band, placing about that end of the body portion and the band an outer knot portion, sewing together the body portion and band and one edge of the knot portion, providing a stiffening inner knot portion, attaching the suspending portion to the said inner knot portion remote from the place of sewing, and drawing the said outer knot portion over the said inner knot portion.

9. In a method of constructing a tie, the method which includes the steps of attaching to one end of the bodyv portion of a tie a suspending portion, placing upon that end of the body portion one end of a collar encircling band, placing about that end of the body portion and the band an outer knot portion, sewing together the body portion and band and one edge of the knot portion, providing a substantially flat stiffening inner knot portion, attaching the suspending portion to the inner knot portion remotefrom the placing of the sewing, drawingover the inner knot portion the said outer knot portion, and bending the ALBERT J. LESS.

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